Aruna De Silva – IBM
Abstract
Containerization takes Db2 to the world of Cloud Paks, Red Hat OpenShift, Public Cloud Kubernetes platforms, etc. In this session we examine the following topics relating to modernizing Db2 on these cloud-native platforms:
- Introduction to Db2 Operator, container, and reference architectures
- Cloud-native Day 2 operations such as backup-and-restore
- Db2 Warehouse on Power on P10 Cloud Rack solution
Speaker Bio
Aruna De Silva is the architect for Db2 on OpenShift and Kubernetes (a.k.a. Db2U Universal Container) offering with over 16 years of database technology experience. He is based off IBM Toronto software laboratory. Since 2015, he has been actively involved with modernizing Db2 — bringing Db2 Warehouse (a.k.a dashDB local), the first containerized Db2 solution out into production in 2016. Starting from early 2019, he has been primarily focused on bringing the success of Db2 Warehouse into cloud native platforms such as OpenShift and Kubernetes while embracing micro service architecture and deployment patterns. With that, he played a key role in the Db2 modernization journey on IBM Cloud Pack for Data, OpenShift and Kubernetes via Db2 Universal Container (Db2U).